No audio with imported AVCHD Clips in PE 11

I have Premiere Elements v11.0 running on a Windows 8 machine. I have updated PE and no more updates are available.
The AVCHD video I am importing is full HD, PAL at 25 fps. The audio is 384kbps 6 channels with audio sample rate of 48kHz. I can import and edit these clips into Premiere Elements V7.0 running on a Windows 7 PC without any problems. The project settings used are HDV 720.
With Elements V11.0, the audio is not being imported which ever project settings I try. There are no error messages.
I have the latest version of Quick Time (7.7.4) installed, although QuickTime doesn’t understand the file. Windows Media Player plays it OK – video and audio. VLC media player also plays it OK.
Is this a missing codec, a bug or some other problem?
Suggestions please?

Robsodav
In spite of the questions to follow, I did see that you wrote
With Elements V11.0, the audio is not being imported which ever project settings I try. There are no error messages.
And, no problems with audio in Premiere Elements 7 Windows 7 64 bit.
Just want to go over your details so as not to take anything for granted.
What are the properties of your source media? What is the file extension? You say AVCHD Full HD, PAL at 25 fps. and you add the project settings used are HDV 720. Why?
The project preset is supposed to match the properties of your source media. From what you wrote, my read on that is that you have
AVCHD video compression 1920 x 1080 16:9 @ 25 (probably interlaced) frames per second.
If so, the project preset should be PAL AVCHD Full HD 1080i25 5.1 channel.
If that is 1920 x 1080 16:9 @ 25 progressive frames per second
then the project preset should be PAL DSLR 1080p DLSR 1080p25.
So, what is the rationale behind setting the project preset for what you describe at HDV 720 which I am taking to be 1280 x 720 @ 25 progressive frames per second?
What is your audio compression.... Dolby Digital 5.1 channel or AAC 5.1 channel or other?
What brand model camera is this video with its audio coming from?
How are you getting the video audio from camera to Premiere Elements11 Timeline?
Is it only the footage from this particular camera that is at issue?
Let us start here and see where your reply leads us.
Thank you.
ATR

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